Landed cost calculator
Put in a purchase order — the supplier's prices in their currency, and the freight, duty and fees on the shipment — and see what each unit really cost you to land.
Free, no sign-up. Everything is worked out in your browser — nothing you type is sent anywhere.
How it's worked out
Each line's goods are converted to your currency and rounded to the cent:
goods = units × unit price × exchange rateEach charge is then spread over the lines in proportion to the basis you chose — the lines' goods value, their units, or their weight (units × kg). A charge is split into whole cents, and the cents rounding leaves over go to the lines with the largest remainders, so the lines add back to the charge exactly. A discount is spread the same way and taken off.
landed per unit = (goods + share of each charge) ÷ unitsWhen a basis adds up to nothing across the order — spreading freight by weight with no weights entered — the charge is
split evenly between the lines, and the calculator says so. With a sell price, margin is (sell − landed per unit) ÷ sell.
Questions
- What is landed cost?
- Everything it took to get a unit onto your shelf: what you paid the supplier, converted to your currency, plus freight, duty, import taxes you can't claim back, inspection, brokerage and any other charge on the shipment, less any discount. It is the cost your margins should be measured against.
- Should freight be spread by value, units or weight?
- By weight (or volume) when the carrier charged by weight — a heavy teapot uses more of the container than a light mug. Duty and brokerage usually follow value, because that is how customs assesses them. Per-carton charges such as inspection or labelling suit units.
- Why don't my lines add up to the invoice to the cent?
- Here they always do. Each charge is split into whole cents by its basis, and the cents left over by rounding go to the lines with the largest remainders, so the lines total the goods and charges exactly.
- Should import tax be part of landed cost?
- Only if you can't reclaim it. Import GST or VAT that your business claims back as an input credit is not a cost of the stock; duty is. Leave reclaimable tax out of the import tax line.
Keep landed cost on the purchase order itself
In Manifold, a freight or duty invoice is allocated to the purchase order it belongs to — the whole order or the lines you pick — split per unit to the cent, in the currency it was billed. The cost lands in stock value and every margin report, and the books post it at that day's exchange rate.
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